Word: circuit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After the Supreme Court, no single U.S. court has been more important to Negro civil rights than the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas all fall under its jurisdiction. So it is that when an opening occurs on the court, segregationists and civil rights lawyers hold their respective breaths until the President nominates a new man. Because of the court's work load, it was expanded last year from nine to thirteen judges. This week the final vacancy will be filled when Claude Feemster Clayton, 58, takes the path...
...Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision-and inferentially told off Clayton in the process. The real issue, the court indicated, was not whether Negroes qualified under the standards, but whether the standards were applied equally to both whites and Negroes...
Contemptuous. After that, Clayton's decisions developed a more progressive tone. He put a stop to the harassment of Negroes seeking to register to vote in one town; he ordered a circuit clerk in an other to stop applying stricter voting requirements for Negroes than for whites; he knocked down a third town's ordinance restricting Negro marches and demonstrations; he voided, as a member of a three-judge panel, application of the state's poll tax in state and local elections. "When you are able to show him a set of outrageous facts, then he loses...
...Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has just reversed all the convictions, as expected. But the redress was unexpected. In an action brought by the Justice Department under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the court not only ordered the county to repay fines collected from the defendants and to expunge all notation of the arrests and convictions from the records; but, most unusually, it also ordered the county to pay all costs incurred in defense of the baseless charges, including "reasonable" attorneys' fees...
...Warsaw Philharmonic and a former avant-garde composer. He had made only a handful of guest appearances with U.S. orchestras and was practically unknown in the States. Nowadays his name is not only familiar and esteemed but also correctly pronounced (Skro-vah-cheff-ski) throughout the American orchestral circuit...